10 thoughts on “He went a little funny in the head…”
Eric, everybody, here is what I found. Please note that it’s midnight here and my mind is tired, and English is not my mothertongue.
Please appreciate the fact that I am exposing some personal considerations and views so publicly… which is kind of scary (fun too).
Finally, thanks Eric for giving me the opportunity to delve in this strange subject, full of… uranian energy.
So, I’ll start with a home made-synthetic SUMMARY:
One guy discovers the ‘comet’ – then planet, that after some different attempts is named after Uranus, prolific god of the sky. (It’s 1781, the guy is Herschel).
The myth of Uranus already exists, since a looong time.
Eight years after, another guy (Klaproth) discovers an element inside a mineral, and calls it with the same name, as if this name was on fashion at the time (according to Wikipedia).
Ops, it was 1789, a ‘highly instable’ year.
[Shivering detail: Klaproth’s son, Julius, was a famous orientalist. One of the sections about him on Wikipedia is entitled “Japan”].
The myth of Uranus already exists, since a looong time.
107 years later somebody discovers radioactivity (1896).
In 1934, 38 years later, the first human-made nuclear fission was made (by a group of Italian physics, who don’t realize what they just did).
In 1938 the first nuclear “aware” fission, by two German chemists.
Now, the ‘full’ explanation:
URANUS
Discovery (from Wikipedia)
Sir William Herschel observed the planet on 13 March [note the date!!!] 1781 while in the garden of his house at 19 New King Street in the town of Bath, Somerset, but initially reported it (on 26 April 1781) as a “comet”. Herschel “engaged in a series of observations on the parallax of the fixed stars”, using a telescope of his own design.
[…..]
The object was soon [actually, it took some time] universally accepted as a new planet. By 1783, Herschel himself acknowledged this fact to Royal Society president Joseph Banks: “By the observation of the most eminent Astronomers in Europe it appears that the new star, which I had the honour of pointing out to them in March 1781, is a Primary Planet of our Solar System.”
In recognition of his achievement, King George III gave Herschel an annual stipend of £200 on the condition that he move to Windsor so that the Royal Family could have a chance to look through his telescopes.
Naming
Maskelyne asked Herschel to “do the astronomical world the faver [sic] to give a name to your planet, which is entirely your own, [and] which we are so much obliged to you for the discovery of.” In response to Maskelyne’s request, Herschel decided to name the object Georgium Sidus (George’s Star), or the “Georgian Planet” in honour of his new patron, King George III. He explained this decision in a letter to Joseph Banks:
“In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were given to the Planets, as being the names of their principal heroes and divinities. In the present more philosophical era it would hardly be allowable to have recourse to the same method and call it Juno, Pallas, Apollo or Minerva, for a name to our new heavenly body. The first consideration of any particular event, or remarkable incident, seems to be its chronology: if in any future age it should be asked, when this last-found Planet was discovered? It would be a very satisfactory answer to say, ‘In the reign of King George the Third.”
Herschel’s proposed name was not popular outside of Britain, and alternatives were soon proposed. Astronomer Jérôme Lalande proposed the planet be named Herschel in honour of its discoverer. Swedish astronomer Erik Prosperin proposed the name Neptune which was supported by other astronomers who liked the idea to commemorate the victories of the British Royal Naval fleet in the course of the American Revolutionary War by calling the new planet even Neptune George III or Neptune Great Britain. Bode, however, opted for Uranus, the Latinized version of the Greek god of the sky, Ouranos. Bode argued that just as Saturn was the father of Jupiter, the new planet should be named after the father of Saturn.
In 1789, Bode’s Royal Academy colleague Martin Klaproth named his newly discovered element “uranium” in support of Bode’s choice. Ultimately, Bode’s suggestion became the most widely used, and became universal in 1850 when HM Nautical Almanac Office, the final holdout, switched from using Georgium Sidus to Uranus.
URANIUM
Martin Heinrich Klaproth, a chemist from Bavaria (Germany), discovered uranium in a piece of pechblenda (a mineral) in 1789 [revolutionary year itself…], although he was not able to isolate it.
As we have seen, he named it after the planet.
Uranium was isolated as a metal for the first time in 1841.
It was used in the glass industry (to give a yellow fluorescent color) for the first time in 1850.
Its radioactivity was observed for the first time in 1896 (107 years after its discovery).
The use of uranium, in the form of its oxide, goes back at least to the 79 a.C.. Some ceramic manufacts colored in yellow have been found in diggings in the Naples area (Italy).
Notes:
In civil use, uranium is used as a weight, because it’s very heavy. To balance aiplanes, helicopters, sailing competition boats [all connected to speed. This is interesting: it’s heavy and it provides BALANCE. So it has the key for balance in itself in some way].
The bomb thrown on Hiroshima was made with uranium, the one thrown on Nagasaki was made with plutonium.
At one of the endangered nuclear plants, now, we have both these employed, as Eric wrote in one of the articles yesterday.
Uranium is the first fissile element discovered in nature. It produces energy, it’s instable, rapid. This is the connection to the mytholgy and the astrology.
Mithology
The mythology leads to the astrology. Sorry, but I’m not well versed in mythology and this one is very complicated to describe.
So I’ll just sum up the caracteristics that derive from the myth, and that belong to the planet – in an astrological view, as far as what I have found and my knowledge go:
Brutal separation, clean cut, decision, instant decision.
Also brutal, violent, primordial sky, fertile sky. Explosive caracter, prone to anger, unpredictable.
Genial, inventor, original ideas, synthesis. Energy, electricity.
Firm will.
Hardness. Inner conflicts that explode outside.
Blind, absolute impulses.
… Oh my God: I am describing a highly uncontrollable element.
Here lies the danger-nuclear disaster connection.
BUT: the nuclear reaction is made with a “manipulation” of the element: the nuclear fission.
It’s not the natural state of the matter. Uranium is ‘naturally’ only slightly radioactive. Toxic, though, by inalation or ingestion, above a certain quantity.
Extreme power – extreme danger. Perfectly coherent with itself!!
(To be continued?)
yeti —
really appreciating both your posts today, especially the earlier one about uranium atoms. i have never been prompted to think of it that way, but it makes a certain sense.
also, thank you for the reminder to review my 18th year. i have my nodal return coming up in a couple months or so. it’s an interesting thing to track.
Len: thanks. I’m having a lunar node return right now so a lot of what I’ve studied since the last one when I was 18 is coming together. I got into magick back then and then began studying the beliefs and practices of any and all cultures that came my way. In 2006 Chinese medicine and martial arts took center stage in my studies as I recognized an internal coherence and resonance with the natural world that was missing in the symbolic head-brain stuff from mostly Thelemic magick. Taoist practices aren’t warped by western flesh dissing.
I think western alchemy may have a similar resonance, but my teachers came from the Chinese traditions so that’s what I learned as far as the physical and medicinal applications are concerned. In the western models as I learned them, largely through the Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley’s tweaks energy is largely psychologized, or seen as symbolic. In the eastern models it’s assumed that qi is a real thing and treated as such. There is no Chinese medicine without taking qi into account and treating the meridians as something every bit as real as blood vessels and bones.
I’ve experienced much better results treating qi as real and not merely a psychological symbol. I used to pop ibuprofen pills whenever I’d get a tension headache, but now I can breathe a headache away before it becomes painful. I had a staph infection that made the left side of my face freak out every year or two since I was 8 years old, and with all those years in the western medical model it never went away. My acupuncturist friend gave me some herbs in 2006 and I haven’t seen that infection since.
Chinese medicine unfortunately exists within an environment dominated by western machine medicine so it’s usually explained away as endorphines and only recognized as a way to manage pain. I think of qigong, internal martial arts, acupuncture, massage and herbal medicine as ways of maintaining health that don’t require radioactive materials to figure out what’s going on inside us. A good acupuncturist can tell a lot about your health state by observing your whole structure, no x rays necessary. Sure, x rays can still be useful, but if you maintain health and don’t break yourself in the first place there’s hardly any need for machine medicine at all.
Of course there will be resistance. It’s less profitable for people to be healthy and know how to maintain their health without constant supervision by doctors than it is for people to be sick, ignorant and dependent upon proprietary pharmaceuticals that can’t be grown in a garden or cultivated with practice. It’s more profitable for GE for people to be too numb to feel their interiors vividly. As with most things currently fucking up the world, nuclear power included, follow the money.
Ok! I will.
Paola, may I suggest you research this? The starting place would be the Wikipedia pages for Uranus and uranium and you will have the basis of your answer. That will not cover the astrology straight away — that’s the next step. As you read the pages, remember that Uranus was the first planet discovered by science. Please let us know what you find.
There are synthetic elements uranium, neptunium, plutonium and many others.
This question comes to me: what is the relation between Uranus as a planet – astrologically speaking – and Uranium as matter and Uranuium as nuclear power matter?
I guess this goes to know why the planet has been named after the matter.
Yeti – Thank you. Your last paragraph is especially powerful. One can expect that many will resist your approach, convinced they know the truth. Stick to your convictions, Yeti, seems as though you are on to something, well, natural.
Wandering_yeti, what you say is interesting.
This is awesome! Well, a little ‘black’ humor… How real is it? Very real. Gosh.
There’s one clip in Atomic Café with Tricky Dick where he seems to have gone a little funny in the head. In the clip he’s almost bursting with glee on account of the hydrogen bomb. Like a little boy with a new toy. It reminded me of the character Dr. Strangelove in the last part of this film.
Neptune conjunct a Libra moon on the Libra point in the Axis chart is telling. Without Neptune that moon placement would be the public raising ethical questions about smashing atoms. Some American Indians say that the uranium is unhappy being taken out of the mountain. If you stop to think about it all radioactive matter is matter that’s trying to return to the stability of lead and helium. And what do scientist do? Make it even harder for it to do so by making even bigger, badder atoms through atomic fission. The radioactivity seems kinda like an atom’s way of saying,”too much stuff! Give me some space!”
I feel some resonance here with a human who smashes their sexual energy and traps it in their crotch and then expresses the energy projecting guilt, hatred, tear gas, bullets and bombs at the chosen enemy. A radioactive atom shoots other atoms because it’s too crowded.
I think the forces in our bodyminds corresponding to the outer planets need to be accessed by cultivating awareness of the qi field, developing clear communication with intuition, and training the interior sense to be as vivid as sight and hearing. The only way materialistic science can perceive those states is by squishing together uranium to make neptunium and plutonium.
Lead is the heaviest element before you get radioactivity. Lead is the metal of Saturn, lord of limitation.
I think matter has desires that it reveals in its form. A true natural science would recognize that, but materialistic science only believes what can be easily reproduced and measured with hard instruments. It treats matter like its obedient bitch, like a blind, dumb machine. When you project the image of the machine onto the Cosmos the powers corresponding to the outer planets can only exist in our world as machine fuel and bombs, drugs, deception, and hostility to life.
Eric, everybody, here is what I found. Please note that it’s midnight here and my mind is tired, and English is not my mothertongue.
Please appreciate the fact that I am exposing some personal considerations and views so publicly… which is kind of scary (fun too).
Finally, thanks Eric for giving me the opportunity to delve in this strange subject, full of… uranian energy.
So, I’ll start with a home made-synthetic SUMMARY:
One guy discovers the ‘comet’ – then planet, that after some different attempts is named after Uranus, prolific god of the sky. (It’s 1781, the guy is Herschel).
The myth of Uranus already exists, since a looong time.
Eight years after, another guy (Klaproth) discovers an element inside a mineral, and calls it with the same name, as if this name was on fashion at the time (according to Wikipedia).
Ops, it was 1789, a ‘highly instable’ year.
[Shivering detail: Klaproth’s son, Julius, was a famous orientalist. One of the sections about him on Wikipedia is entitled “Japan”].
The myth of Uranus already exists, since a looong time.
107 years later somebody discovers radioactivity (1896).
In 1934, 38 years later, the first human-made nuclear fission was made (by a group of Italian physics, who don’t realize what they just did).
In 1938 the first nuclear “aware” fission, by two German chemists.
Now, the ‘full’ explanation:
URANUS
Discovery (from Wikipedia)
Sir William Herschel observed the planet on 13 March [note the date!!!] 1781 while in the garden of his house at 19 New King Street in the town of Bath, Somerset, but initially reported it (on 26 April 1781) as a “comet”. Herschel “engaged in a series of observations on the parallax of the fixed stars”, using a telescope of his own design.
[…..]
The object was soon [actually, it took some time] universally accepted as a new planet. By 1783, Herschel himself acknowledged this fact to Royal Society president Joseph Banks: “By the observation of the most eminent Astronomers in Europe it appears that the new star, which I had the honour of pointing out to them in March 1781, is a Primary Planet of our Solar System.”
In recognition of his achievement, King George III gave Herschel an annual stipend of £200 on the condition that he move to Windsor so that the Royal Family could have a chance to look through his telescopes.
Naming
Maskelyne asked Herschel to “do the astronomical world the faver [sic] to give a name to your planet, which is entirely your own, [and] which we are so much obliged to you for the discovery of.” In response to Maskelyne’s request, Herschel decided to name the object Georgium Sidus (George’s Star), or the “Georgian Planet” in honour of his new patron, King George III. He explained this decision in a letter to Joseph Banks:
“In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were given to the Planets, as being the names of their principal heroes and divinities. In the present more philosophical era it would hardly be allowable to have recourse to the same method and call it Juno, Pallas, Apollo or Minerva, for a name to our new heavenly body. The first consideration of any particular event, or remarkable incident, seems to be its chronology: if in any future age it should be asked, when this last-found Planet was discovered? It would be a very satisfactory answer to say, ‘In the reign of King George the Third.”
Herschel’s proposed name was not popular outside of Britain, and alternatives were soon proposed. Astronomer Jérôme Lalande proposed the planet be named Herschel in honour of its discoverer. Swedish astronomer Erik Prosperin proposed the name Neptune which was supported by other astronomers who liked the idea to commemorate the victories of the British Royal Naval fleet in the course of the American Revolutionary War by calling the new planet even Neptune George III or Neptune Great Britain. Bode, however, opted for Uranus, the Latinized version of the Greek god of the sky, Ouranos. Bode argued that just as Saturn was the father of Jupiter, the new planet should be named after the father of Saturn.
In 1789, Bode’s Royal Academy colleague Martin Klaproth named his newly discovered element “uranium” in support of Bode’s choice. Ultimately, Bode’s suggestion became the most widely used, and became universal in 1850 when HM Nautical Almanac Office, the final holdout, switched from using Georgium Sidus to Uranus.
URANIUM
Martin Heinrich Klaproth, a chemist from Bavaria (Germany), discovered uranium in a piece of pechblenda (a mineral) in 1789 [revolutionary year itself…], although he was not able to isolate it.
As we have seen, he named it after the planet.
Uranium was isolated as a metal for the first time in 1841.
It was used in the glass industry (to give a yellow fluorescent color) for the first time in 1850.
Its radioactivity was observed for the first time in 1896 (107 years after its discovery).
The use of uranium, in the form of its oxide, goes back at least to the 79 a.C.. Some ceramic manufacts colored in yellow have been found in diggings in the Naples area (Italy).
Notes:
In civil use, uranium is used as a weight, because it’s very heavy. To balance aiplanes, helicopters, sailing competition boats [all connected to speed. This is interesting: it’s heavy and it provides BALANCE. So it has the key for balance in itself in some way].
The bomb thrown on Hiroshima was made with uranium, the one thrown on Nagasaki was made with plutonium.
At one of the endangered nuclear plants, now, we have both these employed, as Eric wrote in one of the articles yesterday.
Uranium is the first fissile element discovered in nature. It produces energy, it’s instable, rapid. This is the connection to the mytholgy and the astrology.
Mithology
The mythology leads to the astrology. Sorry, but I’m not well versed in mythology and this one is very complicated to describe.
So I’ll just sum up the caracteristics that derive from the myth, and that belong to the planet – in an astrological view, as far as what I have found and my knowledge go:
Brutal separation, clean cut, decision, instant decision.
Also brutal, violent, primordial sky, fertile sky. Explosive caracter, prone to anger, unpredictable.
Genial, inventor, original ideas, synthesis. Energy, electricity.
Firm will.
Hardness. Inner conflicts that explode outside.
Blind, absolute impulses.
… Oh my God: I am describing a highly uncontrollable element.
Here lies the danger-nuclear disaster connection.
BUT: the nuclear reaction is made with a “manipulation” of the element: the nuclear fission.
It’s not the natural state of the matter. Uranium is ‘naturally’ only slightly radioactive. Toxic, though, by inalation or ingestion, above a certain quantity.
Extreme power – extreme danger. Perfectly coherent with itself!!
(To be continued?)
yeti —
really appreciating both your posts today, especially the earlier one about uranium atoms. i have never been prompted to think of it that way, but it makes a certain sense.
also, thank you for the reminder to review my 18th year. i have my nodal return coming up in a couple months or so. it’s an interesting thing to track.
Len: thanks. I’m having a lunar node return right now so a lot of what I’ve studied since the last one when I was 18 is coming together. I got into magick back then and then began studying the beliefs and practices of any and all cultures that came my way. In 2006 Chinese medicine and martial arts took center stage in my studies as I recognized an internal coherence and resonance with the natural world that was missing in the symbolic head-brain stuff from mostly Thelemic magick. Taoist practices aren’t warped by western flesh dissing.
I think western alchemy may have a similar resonance, but my teachers came from the Chinese traditions so that’s what I learned as far as the physical and medicinal applications are concerned. In the western models as I learned them, largely through the Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley’s tweaks energy is largely psychologized, or seen as symbolic. In the eastern models it’s assumed that qi is a real thing and treated as such. There is no Chinese medicine without taking qi into account and treating the meridians as something every bit as real as blood vessels and bones.
I’ve experienced much better results treating qi as real and not merely a psychological symbol. I used to pop ibuprofen pills whenever I’d get a tension headache, but now I can breathe a headache away before it becomes painful. I had a staph infection that made the left side of my face freak out every year or two since I was 8 years old, and with all those years in the western medical model it never went away. My acupuncturist friend gave me some herbs in 2006 and I haven’t seen that infection since.
Chinese medicine unfortunately exists within an environment dominated by western machine medicine so it’s usually explained away as endorphines and only recognized as a way to manage pain. I think of qigong, internal martial arts, acupuncture, massage and herbal medicine as ways of maintaining health that don’t require radioactive materials to figure out what’s going on inside us. A good acupuncturist can tell a lot about your health state by observing your whole structure, no x rays necessary. Sure, x rays can still be useful, but if you maintain health and don’t break yourself in the first place there’s hardly any need for machine medicine at all.
Of course there will be resistance. It’s less profitable for people to be healthy and know how to maintain their health without constant supervision by doctors than it is for people to be sick, ignorant and dependent upon proprietary pharmaceuticals that can’t be grown in a garden or cultivated with practice. It’s more profitable for GE for people to be too numb to feel their interiors vividly. As with most things currently fucking up the world, nuclear power included, follow the money.
Ok! I will.
Paola, may I suggest you research this? The starting place would be the Wikipedia pages for Uranus and uranium and you will have the basis of your answer. That will not cover the astrology straight away — that’s the next step. As you read the pages, remember that Uranus was the first planet discovered by science. Please let us know what you find.
There are synthetic elements uranium, neptunium, plutonium and many others.
This question comes to me: what is the relation between Uranus as a planet – astrologically speaking – and Uranium as matter and Uranuium as nuclear power matter?
I guess this goes to know why the planet has been named after the matter.
Yeti – Thank you. Your last paragraph is especially powerful. One can expect that many will resist your approach, convinced they know the truth. Stick to your convictions, Yeti, seems as though you are on to something, well, natural.
Wandering_yeti, what you say is interesting.
This is awesome! Well, a little ‘black’ humor… How real is it? Very real. Gosh.
There’s one clip in Atomic Café with Tricky Dick where he seems to have gone a little funny in the head. In the clip he’s almost bursting with glee on account of the hydrogen bomb. Like a little boy with a new toy. It reminded me of the character Dr. Strangelove in the last part of this film.
Neptune conjunct a Libra moon on the Libra point in the Axis chart is telling. Without Neptune that moon placement would be the public raising ethical questions about smashing atoms. Some American Indians say that the uranium is unhappy being taken out of the mountain. If you stop to think about it all radioactive matter is matter that’s trying to return to the stability of lead and helium. And what do scientist do? Make it even harder for it to do so by making even bigger, badder atoms through atomic fission. The radioactivity seems kinda like an atom’s way of saying,”too much stuff! Give me some space!”
I feel some resonance here with a human who smashes their sexual energy and traps it in their crotch and then expresses the energy projecting guilt, hatred, tear gas, bullets and bombs at the chosen enemy. A radioactive atom shoots other atoms because it’s too crowded.
I think the forces in our bodyminds corresponding to the outer planets need to be accessed by cultivating awareness of the qi field, developing clear communication with intuition, and training the interior sense to be as vivid as sight and hearing. The only way materialistic science can perceive those states is by squishing together uranium to make neptunium and plutonium.
Lead is the heaviest element before you get radioactivity. Lead is the metal of Saturn, lord of limitation.
I think matter has desires that it reveals in its form. A true natural science would recognize that, but materialistic science only believes what can be easily reproduced and measured with hard instruments. It treats matter like its obedient bitch, like a blind, dumb machine. When you project the image of the machine onto the Cosmos the powers corresponding to the outer planets can only exist in our world as machine fuel and bombs, drugs, deception, and hostility to life.